Commentary: Getting more men into nursing would help address workforce shortages
Overwork, burnout and stress are causing nurses to leave in droves. Recruiting and retaining more men would not only address the issue, but also reduce the gender pay gap in the healthcare industry, say researchers.
Patricia Davidson , Caleb Ferguson , Jason Farley
14 Aug 2022 06:00AM (Updated: 14 Aug 2022 06:00AM)
SYDNEY: Demand for healthcare is soaring as the population ages, medical treatments become more widely available and more people live with chronic and complex illnesses.
However, there is global shortage of health professionals – and the pandemic has only accentuated the trend. Overwork, burnout and stress are causing nurses to leave in droves....
Part of the solution is to recruit and retain more men in nursing. This would help address workforce shortages and could, over time, reduce the industry gender pay gap as the existence of men in nursing becomes more normalised.
And as jobs dry up in traditionally male-focused industries – such as mining and manufacturing – work in healthcare should be an attractive option for men, providing job security, career opportunities and salary....
The above is from an article in the CNA. This is looking like the perfect solution to the armies of unemployed, underemployed and no talent Singaporeans. Since all the good jobs that required talents from third world countries and foreigners that could not find jobs in their own countries, out talent or no talent Singaporeans are increasingly finding their services terminated to be replaced by these foreigners.
This suggestion by the Australians is perhaps the best thing to have happened here. Instead of being Grab drivers or delivery boys and girls or security guards or cleaning supervisors or unemployed, why not become male nurses? They can be retrained and upgraded from their PMET jobs to become professional males nurses. Think about it. No fish prawn also can.
I think life can be better for the untalented and unemployed or underemployed PMETs since there are so many vacancies available as nurses.
What do you think? Progress? But, if a degree cannot be eaten, a job is always better than no job right?
This guy must have found the perfect and correct answer to Singapore’s perennial problems!
ReplyDeleteThree cheers for whoever he may be! An Australian?
Leave it to the Australians. They are so free that they can think out of the boxes at any time! Good job!
ReplyDeleteSin should scrap National Service and let the People to be Professional
Defenders of the Land
as an employment.
If all the foreign workers were to volunteer to do NS, think Sin would welcome them with open arms. This is how sick in the thinking. Cheap labour, without questioning the political and security impact of having so many foreigners in the island, even in NS, if such a possibility is offered.
ReplyDeleteNational cannot and should not be assigned to any non-citizen. It shall compromise
ReplyDeletethe Security and safety of the People and the Land.
National Defence to above Comment.
ReplyDeleteSincere Apology.
This also applies to critical and sensitive industries and operating systems like the IT of national bank and ministries eg defence, foreign affairs, home affairs, manpower, finance etc etc.
ReplyDeleteIt is so foolhardy to let foreigners manage and contro critical and sensitive operating systems and organisation. Waiting for a Sunak moment to happen.
Stupidity has no cure.
Singapore may be short of talents but definitely not short of fools.
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DeleteAnon 1:09 Pm
Well said.
Most are also selfish.
Sigh
Singapore, Aug 15 (PTI) Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Monday wished External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on the 75th anniversary of India's independence and expressed hope that the bilateral relations will continue to grow from strength to strength.
ReplyDelete"Wishing my good friend @DrSJaishankar and friends in India great joy as they celebrate 75 years of independence," the Indian-origin minister tweeted.
"I am confident that bilateral relations will continue to grow from strength to strength as Singapore and India further enhance our cooperation," he tweeted.
PS: Why must the India media specifies "Indian-origin" to describe the Singapore minister?
Is China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi his 'good friend' also? Personal friendship?
ReplyDeleteHis good friend is Blinken.
ReplyDeleteAnon 12.46 & 12.54, I have to disagree with you both. Singaporeans are no fools and surely not selfish. Singaporeans are top of the ranking for being smart and hardworking. Your government the famous PAP has turned a fishing village to a first world metropolis. Singaporeans are very obedient and always listen and believe whatever your government dishes out. From time to time the government dole out crumps to keep Singaporeans in line and also to make sure the PAP stays in power. Animals can be trained to be obedient, and Singaporeans are no exception. Sheeples.
ReplyDeleteRb nursing jobs same same taken by foreigners too
ReplyDeleteAlmost all the nursing jobs have been taken by foreigners - especially Burmese, China Mei Mei, Indians, Malaysians, Pinoys and Vietnamese.
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ReplyDeleteAgree. And I’ll elaborate.
Singapore solved its defence problem by making NS an institution, mandatory for ALL male citizens. They should do the same to solve the nursing crisis.
Most Sheeple have no direction in life. They don’t have the passion or the testicles to “pursue their dreams” as rugged individuals, to risk their lives and comfort to make something of themselves as entrepreneurs, artists, writers, musicians, film makers, actors, tech innovators…INDIVIDUALS who will fail and fail over again until they “succeed” or don’t. People who play to win, but are not afraid to LOSE…many times. People who don’t mind to be uncomfortable and challenged for long periods of time. People who take RISKS. People who WIN and LOSE disproportionately.
The vast majority of Sheeple are dead-shits who want the easy life with little risk. Some of them are all lazy…in thought and deed. They are crowd-followers with no individual direction. So nationalise these aimless fools…turn them into programmable human robots in service for the goals of The State. That is their reward for having no passion and being too KIASU to take risk.
Some might complain that this will “divide society”. So be it. Society is just a more civilised jungle. It is already divided…but leaders create a narrative of “equality”…and even if you are half awake as an ADULT, you already know that narrative is PURE BULLSHIT.
If Matilah were in charge here we will have a Brave New World in all its glory.
ReplyDeleteI do not buy the fishing village myth. That credit should be reserved, at least, for the Brits who ruled Singapore before the PAP came into power, and turned the fishing village into a trading post. Give credit where credit is due and not try to hijack it. And the talk that the PAP inherited a fishing village and turned it into what it is today is the pure figment of a very fertile imagination. Sure the PAP did turn Singapore into what it is today, but not from a simple fishing village.
ReplyDeleteBeing born just after the war, I have lived and seen what Singapore was like before the PAP came to power. Nothing as backward as a fishing village that existed in someone's fertile mind.
ReplyDeleteA Ruth-less Monster with his eloquence, had his fellow countrymen spell-bound to believe him.
As most elderlies know,
Sin was the Most Prosperous
Place in the Region for a few hundred years.
The Late Monster was well aware
of the Fact. However,
he twisted the Fact to suit his personal agenda.
The Daft believes him due to blind
affection and adoration.
Anyway,
he did well till the Late 80s
when he went along with the Parliamentarians, especially his Son who he groomed to succeed him and the Cabinet Members he mentored and even controlled, in
running Sin.
Sin
today is the End Product of Lee Kuan Yews' Legacy.
How Sin will pan out in the Future
is in the Hands of the Sin Regime.
The People have hand-over
their liberty and dignity to the Leeders.
Pray hard that those they have entrusted are
benevolent or at the Least benign.
Woes betide
any society that is
run by rogue and or incompetent leedership.
Period
Everything has a beginning and an end. Just look at the climate. Where once there were plenty of rainfall, now there are 20 year droughts drying up rivers, destroying crops and there is nothing humans can do to reverse those changes. There was a beginning and there will be a end. In everything.
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